America conducted a nuclear war. It took place in Nevada and lasted 11 years.
One hundred nuclear weapons were detonated.
The unwitting combatants were American citizens.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It is well-documented historical fact.
It is one of the more shameful episodes in 20th century American history.
From 1951 to 1962 the United States conduced 100 above ground atmospheric nuclear weapons tests at a 680-square-mile (1,800 km) location about 100 miles east of Las Vegas known as the Nevada Test Site.
The American above ground atmospheric tests were conducted with zero regard given to the effect of radioactive fallout on people, livestock, crops and the environment. The effects of this radiation were documented as far east as St. Louis, Mo. Significant levels of nuclear fallout was detected in milk and other food crops in Missouri during the above ground testing era.
A top-secret Atomic Energy Commission memo described citizens living downwind of the radiation clouds as "a low-use segment of the population." Civilian employees and military personnel exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test Site were also treated with similar callousness.
In 1983, New York photographer Carole Gallagher gave up a successful career, moved to Utah and spent the next ten years networking among radiation survivors of the United States government’s above ground nuclear testing program. Gallagher found people willing to be photographed and interviewed tell their stories.
The result was her extraordinary 461-page book, American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War, published 30 years ago by The MIT Press in March 1993.
Gallagher gathered shocking evidence of government indifference, pure callousness and outright cover-ups.
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